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einen FRED W. BRAZELL, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

METALLIC WEATHER STREP.

Application tiled February 3, 1928.

. .My invention relates to improvements in metallic weather strips which may be used to advantage around the doors and windows of moto'r vehicles, refrigerators, buidings, etc.

'A further object is to provide a weather strip which can bequickly installed or removed withoutthe aid oi tools, and in order that the invention may be fully understood reference will now be hadto the accompanying drawing, in which:

l? ig. l is a, broken detail perspective view of a weather strip constructed in accordance' with the invention.

ll ig. 2 is a broken perspective view oi the sheet metal molding for holding the weather strip in place.

Fig. 3 is an end view showing the weather strip about to be placed in position in the molding.

lilig. 4 is an end View showing the weather striplseated in the molding.

5 is an end view showing a pane oi glass held in position lby two oi the weather strips. liig. 6 is a modided form..

lteierring in detail to the different parts, 2 designates the weather strip which in general is or lll-shaped configuration in end elevation and formed trom one piece oi sheet metal. Said weather strip which is preierably made oi resilient and noncorrosive metal such as bronze, consists o1? a transversely curved base 4, danges d extending at aiiproximately right angles from the longitudinal margins ol said base 4, and wings 8 which are Curved inwardly towards each other andthen 'towards 'thebase 4 from which their tree margins terminate a suitable distance, as shown by the drawing. 'lhe lianges 6 are provided at intermediate portions with longitudinal ribs 10, ilor holding the weather strip in place, as will hereinafter appear.

l2 designates a molding which may be an integral part of a metallic door or window casing, or it may be made separately and attached with screws or other suitable means to said door or window casing. Said molding is preferably made from one piece et sheet metal and is of a double channel bar conguration, it consisting of an outer base 14, outer walls 16 projecting at approximately right angles from said base 14 and then towardsl each other as indicated at 17, inner walls 18 paralleling the outer walls 16 and integral with the portions 11T-and an inner base 20 connected to the inner margins of the inner walls 18 and paralleling the outer Serial No. 251,713.

base 14. The inner walls 18 are provided at intermediate portions with longitudinal grooves 22 for the reception of the ribs 10.

In practice the weather 'strip 2 canl be readily installed in the molding 12 by pressing the free portions of the flanges 6 towards each other and pushing them inwardly until the curved base 4 contacts the molding 12. The free portions of the flanges 6 arethen released and apart they carry the ribs 10 into the grooves 22 and thus lock the weather strip 2 in position in the molding l2. When a slidable pane or glass A such as is employed in the doors and windows of a motor vehicle are placed between the wings 8 of two weather strips as shown by Fig. 5, said pane of glassf'will be held from rattling and guided in its movements by the wings 8. Said wings will also effectively exclude rain, sleet, and dust, and will outwear the telt strips usually employed for that purpose. 'lihe curved bases I4 also constitute guides and abutments for the adjacent edges of the glass.

Should it become necessary to remove the weather strip 2 from the molding 12 for any reason, it is only necessary to grasp the protruding portions of the dangers 6 and press them towards each other until the ribs 10 are disengaged vfrom the grooves 22, .whereupon the weather strip can be readily withdrawn from said molding.

ln the modified i'orin shown by lli 6, the part-s are substantially the same as t at disclosed by lligs. 1 to 5, inclusive, as is evidenced .by similar reference numerals with the exponents a, the chie'f difference being that a wood inolding12E1 is substituted for the metallic molding -12 andthe grooves 22 have been dispensed with, the weather strip 2a being held in the molding by rictional contact oi the ribs 10a against the inner surface of said molding.

' llrom the foregoing description it is apparent that ll have provided a weather strip and molding therefor embodying the advantages above pointed out, and while l havev shown and described two forms of the invention l reserve all*rights to such changes and the inner base 20 of as they spring eoA modifications thereof as properly tall within the spiritand scope of the* invention as claimed.

' Having' thus described my invention, what l claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentis:

1. A substantially lll-shaped.l weather-strip consisting of a base, flanges extending at approximately right angles from the longitudinal margins of said base, ribs extending longitudinally of the intermediate portions of said anges at a point some distance from gles :trom the longitudinal margins of said.

base, and wings curved toward each other from the Jfree margins of said flanges and then inwardly towards said base, and ribs ex tending longitudinally of the intermediate portions of said anges and adapted to enter or leave said longitudinal grooves when the outer portions of the flanges are pressed towards each other. v

3. A substantially U-shaped weather strip consisting of a base, flanges extending at approximately right angles from the longitudinal margins of said base, ribs extending longitudinally of the intermediate portions of said flanges, wings formed integral with and curved toward each other from the free margins of said flanges and then inwardly towards said base, in combination with a. substantially U-shaped molding consisting of an outer base, outer walls projecting at approximately right angles from said base and then toward each other, inner walls paralleling the outer walls and formed integral with the latter7 longitudinal ribs formed in said inner walls to receive the ribs of the weather strip, and an inner base formed integral .with the inner margins of the inner walls and paralleling said outer base.

In testimony whereof atlix my signature.

FRED W. BRAZELL. 

